Aramac War Memorial

Details

Location Lodge and Gordon Streets, Aramac, Barcaldine - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Made of Ulam marble it has a life-sized statue of an Australian Infantry soldier standing at ease at the top of a tall obelisk. The obelisk has a leaded AIF badge and the dates of the war on the front base. The monument rests on a base of rock-faced grey granite. It is surrounded by sandstone kerbing and corner posts, then by granite corner posts linked by double metal rails. There is a metal flagstaff at the south-west corner of the enclosure.

Built F. M. Allan (Rockhampton, QLD)
Opened 12 April 1924
Inscription

1914 -1918

SUPREME SACRIFICE
(NAMES)

WOUNDED
(NAMES)

IN HONOUR
OF THOSE WHO LEFT THE SHIRE OF ARAMAC
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GREAT WAR

Left Side Inscription
ENLISTED
(NAMES)

Back Inscription
ENLISTED
(NAMES)

Right Side Inscription
ENLISTED
(NAMES)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 6 people of interest from memorial

SAMS, Jack Clive

Service number 593
Trooper
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 30 Mar 1891

SAUER, Frederick David

Service number 57705
Private
1st Motor Transport Company
AIF WW1
Born 21 Jun 1901

CUDDY, John Thomas

Service number 65
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

EGAN, William Andrew

Service number 90
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Nov 1894

EGAN, Patrick Hugh

Service number 1574
Driver
4th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 20 Jan 1893

WATERWORTH, Lindsay Carmel

Service number Q156823
Private
Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Jan 1892

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